Plata

Pla·ta

(plä′tə, -tä), Río de la

A wide estuary of southeast South America between Argentina and Uruguay formed by the Paraná and Uruguay Rivers and opening on the Atlantic Ocean. It was explored by Magellan in 1520 and Sebastian Cabot from 1526 to 1529.

Plata

(Spanish ˈplata)

n

(Placename) Río de la Plata (ˈrio de la) an estuary on the SE coast of South America, between Argentina and Uruguay, formed by the Uruguay and Paraná Rivers. Length: 275 km (171 miles). Width: (at its mouth) 225 km (140 miles). Also known as: La Plata English name: River Plate

Pla•ta

(ˈplɑ tɑ)

n.

Rí•o de la (ˈri ɔ ðɛ lɑ) an estuary on the SE coast of South America between Argentina and Uruguay, formed by the Uruguay and Paraná rivers, ab. 185 mi. (290 km) long.

In our passage to the Plata, we saw nothing particular, excepting on one day a great shoal of porpoises, many hundreds in number.

The Beagle was employed in surveying the extreme southern and eastern coasts of America, south of the Plata, during the two succeeding years.

The features of the country are very similar along the whole northern bank of the Plata.

Near Pan de Azucar, a landmark well known to all those who have sailed up the Plata, I stayed a day at the house of a most hospitable old Spaniard.

In the middle of the continent there is a broad intermediate band, including central Chile and the provinces of La Plata, where the rain-bringing winds have not to pass over lofty mountains, and where the land is neither a desert nor covered by forests.

When South America, that is to say, Peru, Chili, Brazil, the provinces of La Plata and Columbia, had poured forth their quota into their hands, the sum of $300,000, it found itself in possession of a considerable capital, of which the following is a statement:

Several of the plants now most numerous over the wide plains of La Plata, clothing square leagues of surface almost to the exclusion of all other plants, have been introduced from Europe; and there are plants which now range in India, as I hear from Dr.

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